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Faculty Research

Richard A. Wright

Professor of Geography

Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs

Richard studies labor markets and housing markets in the US. He has two current projects. One involves skilled migration, both within and to the US. The other looks at housing markets—from the perspective of race and racism. Recent research has also examined the effects of the Great Recession and anti-immigrant legislation on migration.

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Great Recession/Anti-immigrant Legislation Research

2016 “State-scale Immigration Enforcement and Latino Interstate Migration in the United States,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 106, 4, 891-908. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2015.1135725, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley.

2015 “The Great Recession and the Migration Redistribution of Blacks and Whites in the US South,” Growth and Change, 46, 4, 611-630. DOI: 10.1111/grow.12107, with Natasha Rivers and Mark Ellis.

2014 “Patterns of Racial Segregation and Diversity in the United States: 1990-2010,” The Professional Geographer, 66, 2, 173-182. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2012.735924, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Sandy Wong.

2012 “Agents of Change: Mixed-race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102, 3, 549-570, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Christopher Fowler.

Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, and Matt Townley (2014) “The Allure of New Immigrant Destinations and the Great Recession in the United States,” International Migration Review, 48, 1, 3-33. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12058.